A course of chymistry. Containing the easiest manner of performing those operations that are in physick. With curious remarks and useful discourses upon each operation / writ in French by Nicholas Lemery ; Translated by Walter Harris.

  • Nicolas Lemery
Date:
1677
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Credit: A course of chymistry. Containing the easiest manner of performing those operations that are in physick. With curious remarks and useful discourses upon each operation / writ in French by Nicholas Lemery ; Translated by Walter Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ett tt | pin inthh / | thea t [ns =! + = M - re ech yn0te M 1] ad. phicio ref D CL 107 d'Courte of Cyymittry. quite red, becaufe the more you Calcine it, you lofe the more. Spirits that’ rendred it Corro- five. | Turbith Mineral, or À ellow Precipitate. | “put four ‘ounces of Quick-filver revived out of Cinnabar into a Glaff- Ketort, and pour upon it fixteen ounces of Oyl of Virriol ; fer your Re~ tort on Sand, and when the Mercury is diffolved put fire underneath, and difti the humidity, make the fire ftrong enough toward the end for to drive out fome of the laft Spirits of all’; after- wards break your Rerort, ahd’ powder in a Giafs Mortar 4 white Mafs you find within it; keep half of it for an Operation I fhall defcribe here- after, pour warm Water upon the reft, and the matter will be prefently changed into a yellow Powder, rhat-you muft dulcifie-by a great many feveral Lotions, then dry it in the thade. ‘It pur- ges ftrongly, both by vomit, and ftool, it is s1- ven in Venerial Maladies, the Dofe is from two grains untofix in Pills, , Remarks. | Though that which is improperly called Oy! Of Vitriok, be one of the ftrongeft Acids and Cau- fticks of this Mineral Salt; it 1s neverthelefs muck 114208 Fa: weaker